[wp-hackers] Changeset 2877 - non-unique user IDs?

[Michael D Adams]

What sorts of apps did you have in mind that wouldn't be able to make  
use of the non unique display_name column?
Michael

On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Owen Winkler wrote:
>
>> http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2877
>> What's that all about?  We don't require unique user IDs for login  
>> now?
>>
>
> It's needs to be enforced on the code level, not with database  
> errors. The new user database is designed to be something modular  
> you can plug into almost any application, bbPress and MU are just  
> two other apps using it. It may continue to evolve before 1.6 goes  
> "gold."